2024.Random.Phrases
This list, which I've now continued for five years, is my favorite thing I do all year, aside from cycle and keep living – and I'm not overly sure about the living part....
Less but immediate
More a contract than a star
Though they come nothing near
Often and often (ie, “again and again”)
An over-early buckling toward them
Supplying the only means for warmth or cookery
Eyes long dimmed by weeping
In the glad buoyancy of her youth
Kept me rigidly to the desk
The far-off hum of the coming multitude
The reality of blood
A lowering, heavy morning, overcast with clouds
Descry the lineaments
The ruffian jest
The very essence of our old nobility
The first misfortune of their house
The price of rice and the want of rain
With epithets most disrespectful to royalty
The tight focus of trauma
Adolf’s polyp
Sharp curves
Gossiping on doorsteps never swept
Get the old ashes hauled (ie, get banged)
The Philip Morris midget
Americans—“a confounding people”
Go the whole figure
Lax with the perpetrators and strict with the victims
All the prisons, very interesting and very horrible
Chequer the monotony
Flamboyant hats and facial hair
The Denver Problem
Condense and Summarize
A cactus of cilantro
Thunderstruck and stunned
In front of the big public
Stolen in South America
The supper I’m forever assembling
A postdoctoral researcher in comparative bioacoustics at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Particleboard rectangle
Censor erratically / censor comprehensively
Already authorized, or at least proposed
To throng the gay gardens
Accorded better with my intention
To the buildings undermined
The rich darkness of the nearest distance
To circumcycle London
Started for Dorking
Routes and put to flight
The mounted armies of Europe
Of hills long to climb and short to coast
Easier to miss than to find
Thickly crusted with age, weather-stained, towered and battlemented
The golden glamour of first impressions
Frighten into idiocy
Aggressively suburban
Intervals of madness
Suffered roughly at the washboard
Abuse disguised as education
Face management
Both curative and preventive
Large trees and low plants
The surface of the ground
Contains tobacco depictions
To say my humble say
Which, being far from books, I quote from memory
The mulcting under the verdict
Glee club of the damned
No shit, no roses
Different sources, different claims
A sincere and stupid belief
Perpetually aggrieved
Ill versed in the amenities of life
Aggressive underwear
Hot Pocket juice
Slightly feudal insults
Door-to-door bug assassin
Daily gapao
Open biology
It’s all subtle and submarine
Ungainly hoards of memorabilia advertised as “museums”
Tight but loping
Not so much present as remembered
The North remembers
No hugs, no handshakes; please leave me alone
Tell me why cry? / Tell me why? Chainsaw Blood
This is of an unprecedented gravity
Another room waiting for its literature
Entourages of azures and clouds
People are willing to scroll
Badger the badgeless
Life to us was worth ten heavens
The coach was squirming with youngsters
The hubris and the hackery
Leavings and learnings
Not best pleased
The Great Awokening
A trajectory toward genocide
Elite capture
A talented man of great refinement
French-speaking Hells Angels
Synthetically fancy
Punch-shot my nuts into my cranium
The Hubble tension
The local distance ladder/cosmic distance ladder
A pain in the cheese
Not my circus, not my monkeys
Insistent throb
Not a ton of it, but enough of it
Società Italiana Prodotti Esplodenti (Italian Society of Explosive Products)
A burning desire to witness phenomena up close
The human eye’s persistence of vision
The irresponsible balminess of Spring
Freely breathed the air of peace
The Burning House of worldly suffering
A cup by someone crushed
Started as a favor and turned into an intervention
A riot of sunlight
Unadorned bologna sandwich
Crushing percussion
Regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice
Put him on the first thing smoking
It was subtle, but it was spotted
It’s foaming at the tree
Imagine an urban beaver
The shitter-shatter of the maidens
The potbelly of presiding judges
To juggle the live ammo of words
Obnoxious, unsupportive, and cold
Immortal plus invincible
The Fiona Event
Main colon
Morbid hyperverbosity
System of dates and memories
Traditional Godzilla Violence
Cads, colonizers, and crazies
Butts to nuts (ie, crowded)
Here are 2023's, 2022's, 2021's, and 2020's.
